Example sentences of "[noun] have come [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eye-witness Maureen Darwin , who was waiting to board one of the US-bound jumbos , said : ‘ It was as if a giant unseen hand had come down from the heavens and just lifted the planes up and across the tarmac . |
| 32 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 33 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 34 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 35 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 36 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 37 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 38 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 39 | Her spirits had come down from the heights to the abyss . |
| 40 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 41 | The shares have come down from 795p since the toxic waste issue blew up . |